Ecological summary

Burial grounds are fantastic places for biodiversity, often containing species rich grassland which was once widespread in the UK. The walls and monuments create habitat for amphibians, reptiles, small mammals and invertebrates as well as ferns, mosses and liverworts. Of the 2,000 lichen species in the UK, 700 are found in churchyards with a third of these rarely found elsewhere. Check for thrushes feeding on yew berries and swifts and bats under the eaves.

Caring for God's Acre is a national charity dedicated to supporting those managing burial grounds for conservation and heritage purposes. More information on the support offered can be found on their website here: https://www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk. To view the occurrence records in this burial ground click on the View records button underneath the map.

Ancient & Veteran Trees

The UK holds a globally important population of veteran and ancient yew trees of which three-quarters are found in the churchyards of England and Wales. There are about 800 of these ancient and veteran yews, aged from 500 to several 1,000 years old, with no known upper age limit. Burial grounds may contain veteran trees of other species.

Burial grounds may also contain veteran trees of other species, acting as hosts to a wealth of associated plants, animals, lichen and fungi.

Bats and Swifts

Bats – Bats use both the buildings and also the mature and veteran trees within burial grounds to roost, breed and overwinter. These places are relatively unchanging and so populations may have built up over centuries. In addition, bats may forage and feed over the grassland and other vegetation, taking advantage of the wide variety of insect species to be found.

Swifts – The eaves, roofs, towers and steeples of historic churches and chapels, combined with the space around them for accessing nooks and crannies make burial grounds excellent for nesting swifts. These buildings are relatively unchanging and so populations may have built up over centuries. Nests are hard to find and so surveying is crucial for good management.

[counting] species

This map contains both point- and grid-based occurrences at different resolutions

Datasets

datasets have provided data to the NBN Atlas Beautiful Burial Grounds for this place.

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Other Heritage Information

Group Species

[counting] species

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Taxa No. of records Most recent record
Myriolecis crenulata 2 2011
Myriolecis dispersa 2 2011
Myriospora rufescens 1 2011
Ochrolechia parella (Crab's Eye Lichen) 2 2011
Parmelia saxatilis s. lat. 2 2011
Parmelia sulcata (Netted Shield Lichen) 1 2011
Peltigera didactyla 1 2011
Phaeophyscia orbicularis 2 2011
Phlyctis argena 1 2011
Physcia adscendens 2 2011
Physcia caesia 2 2011
Physcia dubia 2 2011
Physcia tenella 1 2011
Physconia grisea 2 2011
Placopyrenium fuscellum 1 2011
Placynthiella icmalea 1 2011
Placynthium nigrum 1 2011
Porpidia soredizodes 1 2011
Porpidia tuberculosa 2 2011
Protoblastenia rupestris 2 2011
Protoparmeliopsis muralis 1 2011
Psilolechia lucida 2 2011
Punctelia jeckeri 1 2011
Punctelia subrudecta s. str. 1 2011
Ramalina canariensis 1 2011
Ramalina farinacea 1 2011
Rhizocarpon reductum 1 2011
Sarcogyne regularis 1 2011
Scoliciosporum umbrinum 1 2011
Tephromela atra var. atra (Black Shields) 2 2011
Toniniopsis aromatica 1 2011
Trapelia coarctata 1 2011
Trapelia placodioides 1 2011
Verrucaria hochstetteri 1 2011
Verrucaria macrostoma f. furfuracea 1 2011
Verrucaria macrostoma f. macrostoma 1 2011
Verrucaria muralis 1 2011
Verrucaria nigrescens 2 2011
Vespa crabro (Hornet) 1 2014
Xanthoria calcicola 1 2011
Xanthoria parietina (Common Orange Lichen) 2 2011
Xanthoria polycarpa 2 2011

Charts showing breakdown of occurrence records ([counting] records)

Data sets Licence Records